As Commissioner Breton rightly put it in his latest LinkedIn post, "the first Report on the State of the Digital Decade shows that, at the current rate of investment and policy intervention, we will not reach our Digital Decade targets, let alone making the extra leap required by the ongoing technological shift. 

We should work together, industry, investors, public authorities, to uncover and remove the obstacles to much needed investments and make them more efficient. Some have tried to reduce the issue of investment to a battle over the “fair share” between Big Telco and Big Tech. A binary choice between the vested interests of those who provide networks today and those who currently feed them with the traffic. 

But while finding a financing model for the huge investments needed is an important issue that we will need to deal with, so much more is at stake. It is about achieving the giant leap ahead of us: not only in the telecoms sector, but more broadly in digital technologies."